What an AI-written SEO article costs in 2026: per-article prices from six tools
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An AI-written SEO article costs between about 60 cents and $3.80 on the auto-blogging tools we checked, depending on how many articles the plan includes and what happens to each one before it is published. The model that writes it costs cents on every tool; the price is the keyword research, the checking and the publishing around it. We make one of the six, and every figure below is the vendor's plan price divided by what that plan includes, read from its own pricing page on 2026-11-09.
TL;DR - Arvow is the cheapest per article at about 59 cents, on a price its page shows as a yearly rate. RightBlogger Solo works out to about $1.63 and Outrank to $3.30, both at about 30 articles a month, and Autoblogging.ai to about $1.90 for a full article. DispatchSEO is about $1.93 to $3.80 per article on paid plans and $0 for two a month on the free plan, with a fact check on every one.
What does one article cost on each tool?
| Tool and plan | Price | Articles a month | Per article |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arvow Solo | $39, shown as a yearly rate | about 66 (1,000 credits at 15 each) | about $0.59 |
| RightBlogger Solo | $49/mo yearly, $59 monthly | up to 30 (1 a day) | $1.63 to $1.97 |
| Autoblogging.ai | $19/mo, $12 yearly | about 10 full articles (40 credits, about 4 each) | $1.20 to $1.90 |
| Outrank | $99/mo, or $999 a year | 30 | $2.78 to $3.30 |
| SEObot | from $49/mo | not published | cannot be worked out |
| DispatchSEO Free | $0 | 2, with a small badge | $0 |
| DispatchSEO Starter | $19/mo, $15 yearly | 5 articles per month | $3.00 to $3.80 |
| DispatchSEO Growth | $39/mo, $29 yearly | 15 articles per month, up to 3 sites | $1.93 to $2.60 |
| DispatchSEO Scale | $69/mo, $59 yearly | 30 articles per month, up to 5 sites | $1.97 to $2.30 |
Where a vendor shows a yearly and a monthly price, both are in the range. Autoblogging.ai charges one credit for a plain article and one more each for SERP analysis, images and internal links, so a finished article is about four credits. Arvow's page shows one price per plan next to a "saves you $360 with yearly" line, which reads as the yearly rate. SEObot does not publish its tiers, so its per-article price cannot be computed from the page.
Why does the price per article vary six times over?
Because the tools sell different amounts of work per article. The writing model is a few cents of compute on every one of them, so the spread comes from what else runs. Arvow and RightBlogger publish a post a day with no fact check described on their pages. Outrank publishes 30 a month and mentions fact-checking only on its $1,399 human-edited tier. Autoblogging.ai lists a fact checker on paid plans and prices images and SERP analysis as separate credits. On Growth and Scale, DispatchSEO costs a little more per article than RightBlogger or Autoblogging.ai and less than Outrank; Starter costs a little more than Outrank. Each DispatchSEO article starts from a keyword with measured search demand, is checked claim by claim against the source it cites, gets a cover image and internal links, and is published for you as a pull request or on a hosted blog. You are paying for the articles that were not published as much as for the ones that were.
What is included in the price?
Not the same things. RightBlogger's plan is also a writing suite and a post-publish agent that audits older posts, so some of the $49 buys tools you use by hand. Autoblogging.ai's base credit buys plain text; images, SERP analysis and links cost extra credits. Outrank and SEObot include publishing to WordPress and most website builders. DispatchSEO includes the keyword research, the fact check, the cover image, publishing to a GitHub repo or hosted blog, and the Google clicks and impressions each article brought, shown per article. Search-volume data is the one cost that is metered separately almost everywhere; on DispatchSEO it is inside the plan.
Is cheaper per article better?
Only if every article is one you would have published anyway. Google's spam policy targets pages produced in bulk to manipulate rankings, however they were made, and thirty unchecked articles a month on guessed topics is exactly that shape. Two checked articles a month on topics with measured demand carry much less of that risk. Volume is the risk, not the AI. If you will read and fix every post yourself, the cheap-per-article tools are fine. If you will not, pay for the checking.
How much should you budget?
| If you want... | Budget | Tools |
|---|---|---|
| To see finished articles before paying | $0 | DispatchSEO free, or Autoblogging.ai's free credits for drafts |
| A few checked articles a month on one site | $15 to $19 a month | DispatchSEO Starter, Autoblogging.ai |
| About 30 articles a month on WordPress | $49 to $99 a month | RightBlogger, SEObot, Outrank |
| Human editors on every piece | $1,399 a month | Outrank Human Curated |
FAQ
What does the AI model itself cost per article? Cents. At current API prices a researched, checked article costs well under a dollar of model time, and a plain draft far less. The rest of the price is the pipeline, the search data, the publishing integrations, the runs that stop before publishing, and margin.
Why is SEObot missing a per-article figure? Its pricing page gives a starting price of $49 but does not publish how many articles each tier includes, so the division cannot be done honestly. If the page changes, this table will.
Do yearly rates change the order? Slightly. Autoblogging.ai drops to $1.20 and DispatchSEO Growth to $1.93 on yearly billing, which puts Autoblogging.ai under RightBlogger's $1.63 and DispatchSEO Growth just above it. Arvow stays cheapest per article and DispatchSEO Starter stays the most per article, with Outrank just below it.
Does the free plan have a catch? DispatchSEO's free articles carry a small badge linking back, and the plan pauses only after 60 days without a sign-in, with a warning email first. Autoblogging.ai's free credits buy plain drafts that you publish through your own WordPress connection. Neither asks for a card.
DispatchSEO's plans updated 2026-11-11. Other prices checked 2026-11-09 on rightblogger.com/pricing, seobotai.com, outrank.so/pricing, autoblogging.ai/pricing and arvow.com/pricing. Per-article figures are plan price divided by the plan's monthly article count; where a plan gives credits, the vendor's own credit-per-article note is used. Tell us if a price has changed and we will fix the table.